Samaneh Mirzaei, Deputy Director of IT Operations, MS, AWS CSA, AWS CCP, BIG-IP LTM

Samaneh Mirzaei is Deputy Director of IT Operations leading QIP’s web application support efforts for our customer at the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED’s) Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Her work includes helping web developers set up unique applications in a cloud-based environment, change management for web and database servers, development-through-production deployment for major web application releases, and various activities related to infrastructure updates and configuration audits.

As part of the Cloud Hosting, System Administration, and Website Support and Development (CWS) contract, Samaneh is the Project Manager of Operations and principal point of contact between the IES IT core and QIP’s CWS team. In this role, she manages the cloud data center, engineering staff, applications, and databases on multiple content management systems (IIS, MYSQL 5.6, Drupal), and develops applications on IIS via various frameworks (Microsoft ASP, ASP.NET, .NET Core).

“Problem solving is where my personal interest lies, and at my current position I get that opportunity routinely,” she said. “My position as the Deputy Director of IT Operations allows me to concentrate on many things, from engineering to management. The daily challenges make me all the more passionate about my work.”